Salih Muslim said Turkey only thinks of invasions and massacres in Syria and that is why they use the concept of a ‘safe zone’, stressing that they will not support any project that Turkey is involved in.

KJK executive Dîcle Xabûr, spoke of the indefinite hunger strikes in protest against the strict isolation imposed on the Kurdish People’s Leader, Abdullah Ocalan, noting that the hunger strikers draw their strength from the spirit of the July 14 resistanc

Jaysh al-Thuwar Deputy Commander General Ahmet Sultan said: “Hayat Tahrir al Sham will take the whole of Idlib under their control. HTS is allowed to advance, because Turkey and Russia have plans over Idlib.”

Confidential correspondence has surfaced between the Berlin and Ankara on Omer Guney who killed 3 Kurdish women in Paris. Turkey asks “Did Guney receive any arms training in Germany?” in the correspondence, and Germany says he did not.

TEV-DEM Diplomacy Officer Aldar Xelil called on international powers to be guarantors at the border against the Turkish threats of invasion. Xelil said a no-fly zone could possibly be brought up in the Council of Europe as well.

The Turkish officials, on their excursion to Russia, proposed options for the invasion of Manbij. Following proposals that can be summed up as “part of Manbij for part of Idlib”, Russia has phased into a “wait and see” policy.

The crisis of drought and water supply, the failure of Islamic Republic’s functioning mechanism, crisis of unemployment and social crisis, weakening of public confidence in the regime, widespread corruption in management made most of the topics in 2018.

Salih Muslim, Head of Foreign Relations for the PYD evaluated the diplomatic efforts of 2018 in North and East Syria and said, the New Year’s diplomacy will be conducted based on resolving Syrian crisis and the liberation of Afrin.

Following the intense diplomatic traffic that started in the Moscow-Damascus and Northern Syria line after the Turkish threats of occupation, Syria and Russia sent forces to Arima town in al-Bab and started to act together with the self-defense forces.